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Kingsair Travel and Tours hosted survivors of the Tulsa Racing Massacre in the United States in 1921.
The two African-American survivors of the century-old Tulsa race massacre recently traveled to Ghana with their grandchildren to connect with their ‘homeland’.
Viola Fletcher, 107, known as “Mother Fletcher”, and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100, known as “Uncle Red” are from the Greenwood district in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. .
In 1921, a mob of armed whites carried out the massacre against the blacks.
The visit of the two survivors to Ghana was intended to help them replace 100 years of bad memories with knowledge of positive developments in their “homeland”.
Their trip to Ghana was organized by HE Dr Erieka Bennett Founder, Head of Mission African Diaspora Forum.
KingsAir Travel & Tours was responsible for handling all the logistics of their visit. The CEO and Managing Director of Kingdom Exim Group of Companies, Dr James Rajamani and Dr Immanuel Rajamani, had the privilege of meeting and offering their best wishes and some memories to Mother Fletcher. , Uncle Redd and their entourage at La Palm Beach Resort.
Those who attended the event expressed that it was indeed a great pleasure for them to have met Mother Viola Fletcher and Uncle Redd.
Mother Viola Fletcher and Uncle Redd are believed to be the oldest survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Oklahoma, USA massacre.
History of the Tulsa massacre
On May 31, 1921, a group of black men went to the Tulsa courthouse to defend a young African-American man accused of assaulting a white woman. They found themselves facing a crowd of hundreds of angry whites.
Tensions increased and shots were fired, and African Americans retreated to their neighborhood, Greenwood.
The next day, at dawn, white men looted and set fire to the neighborhood, then so prosperous it was called Black Wall Street.
In 2001, a commission created to study the tragedy concluded that the Tulsa authorities themselves had armed some of the white rioters.
Historians say up to 300 African-American residents lost their lives and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless in the 1921 incident that pitted whites against blacks.
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Kingdom Exim Group has been around since 2008, operating primarily in Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East and Savannah regions.
As a leading agro-food company, the Group liaises with farmers of tree crops such as raw cashews, shea, soybeans, corn, among others.
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Over the years, the Group has undertaken a number of corporate social responsibility initiatives – drilling boreholes, supplying materials to farmers and providing food during Covid 19 in the metropolis of Tema, support for regional police of Tema with PPE, barricades, hand sanitizers, liquid soap, support for Tema East constituency during the covid 19 pandemic, donation made to the Techiman North District Assembly during the covid 19 pandemic , donation made to the queen mother in the regions of the Eastern region during the Covid 19 pandemic etc.
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